Overview
- Compares the ways in which natural disaster is framed at local and international levels
- Looks critically at the actors involved in representations of disaster
- Analyzes the plurality of interpretations and implementations in response to natural disasters
Part of the book series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy (SPIRP)
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This book analyses the making of the international world of ‘natural’ disasters by its professionals. Through a long-term ethnographic study of this arena, the author unveils the various elements that are necessary for the construction of an international world: a collective narrative, a shared language, and standardized practices. The book analyses the two main framings that these professionals use to situate themselves with regards to a disaster: preparedness and resilience, arguing that the making of the world of ‘natural’ disasters reveals how heterogeneous, conflicting, and sometimes competing elements are put together.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Genealogy and Iconography of the “Natural” Disaster World
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The Forging of an International World of “Natural” Disasters
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Confronting “Natural” Disasters
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Back Matter
Reviews
“Disasterland is a great book not only for scholars interested in international organisations, transnational professionals and disaster risk reduction, but also practitioners, as it offers to bring practical reflexivity in the work of disaster professionals. … the book is accessible to a wide range of audiences and avoids academic jargon as much as possible, while leading the reader through an intellectual journey into the work of disaster professionals ‘behind the scenes’.” (Kari De Pryck,European Review of International Studies ERIS, Vol. 8, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sandrine Revet is Research Professor at CERI Sciences Po, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disasterland
Book Subtitle: An Ethnography of the International Disaster Community
Authors: Sandrine Revet
Translated by: Cynthia Schoch, Katharine Throssell
Series Title: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41582-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41581-5Published: 29 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41584-6Published: 29 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41582-2Published: 28 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-607X
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6088
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 236
Number of Illustrations: 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory, Globalization, Development Studies